floorer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From floor + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 6).
Noun
[edit]floorer (plural floorers)
- Someone who floors, lays flooring.
- (UK) In skittles, the act of knocking down all of the skittles in one throw.
- (informal) A knock-down blow.
- (informal) A decisive retort.
- (informal) A question that one cannot easily answer; a poser.
- (in combination, rare) A building with the specified number of floors.
- 1939, Thomas Oxenbridge, “Cavalcade of Architecture: An Interview with John Eberson”, in The Film Daily Cavalcade 1939, New York, NY: The Film Daily, page 238:
- You enter a skyscraper in an American city. The “theater” is a ten-floorer, the floors occupied by the theater running consecutively upward from ground. […] There are 10 auditoriums, one above the other in this 10-floorer, and in each auditorium the show is the same.